Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had nervously hung blackout shades in their flimsy houses. By foot or bus or train they would take to the parks-to Asakusa, with its booths of cheap souvenirs and its great red temple of Kwannon; to Uyeno, with its museums and galleries; or to Shiba, with its tree-shrouded tombs of the shoguns. To the shuffling crowds watching for the blossoms, the days would seem more hopeful than they had for a very long time...
...pronounced Kah-teh), the hill natives' language which Finschhafen had adopted. There was brave, 63-year-old Rev. Stephan Lehner, who first brought God's word to the Laewomba cannibals in the Markham Valley. He won them by hanging cloth, paring knives and tobacco on a dead tree by a river-in native sign language, a surety that he was their friend...
...brush-covered, gully-cut hills of Camp Bullis, 20 miles northwest of San Antonio, Tex., demolition experts previewed the program, found it good. Potential "students" and newshawks, advised to "look up and dodge" rather than seek cover, watched a picked demolition detail lop off a 17-in. tree with "a necklace of half-pound TNT blocks, open up a 4-ft. roadway crater, send barbed-wire entanglements up in a spray. Two TNT blocks neatly halved a railroad rail. A homemade mine (an old cartridge box, batteries, scrap iron, wire, string, 6½lb. of TNT) tore the guns from...
...cruelly realistic marriage, a gruesome, slapstick try at corpse robbing, harsh satire on civil and priestly extortion, some Swiftian dialogues with a Chinaman on law, religion, medicine, the rich. At length he meets repentance head-on in the dead person of an old pal: "I saw hanging to a tree the impaled corpse of an executed man in his white gown and tall cap adorned with a red cross, his hands bound." Towards the virtuous end of his life Poll finds a new pal-"One Lizárdi . . . a sorry writer in your motherland, known to the public...
...furthest-left primate the staid old church of England has ever had was this week promoted to the top of the ecclesiastical tree...